Fury and concern were today expressed by doctors and medical groups that confidential medical records were dumped and ended up lying in a field. Medical files containing sensitive information were discovered in a former landfill near the Elm Tree bar in Glounthaune —being excavated for the Cork-Midleton rail line — by a local woman 48…
Audit: NJ lacks computer security for personal Medicaid data
Tom Hester, Jr. reports: New Jersey has not monitored access to key personal information in a computer system that tracks care for the poor, leaving no way to know if Social Security numbers and other information about doctors and patients have been misused, a recent state audit found. The analysis determined that the state Department…
NY: 88,000 patients at risk after computer theft
Glenn Nyback reports in the Staten Island Advance: Computer equipment stolen from an administrative office in Rosebank in December contained personal information about 88,000 patients who have been treated at Staten Island University Hospital. After four months with no arrests, hospital administrators are just now beginning the process of sending letters to patients whose names,…
View: Top Privacy and Security Developments for the Health Care Industry
Kirk J. Nahra’s talk on “Top Privacy and Security Developments for the Health Care Industry” at the 15th National HIPAA Summit is available for free online viewing.
Back to class on medical privacy
An editorial in the Detroit Free Press: There’s a lesson for state lawmakers in a dispute brewing between a tiny Van Buren County school district and the Michigan Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union. The Lawton district and the MEA are at odds over the limits of a recent Michigan law allowing school districts…
File stolen from Johns Hopkins employee vehicle contained sensitive info
Just to keep our records and chronologies complete, I am posting this breach that occurred in December 2007; notification was made in January 2008, but it just came to our attention: A folder stolen from the vehicle of an employee of Johns Hopkins contained sensitive information on 190 former and current members of an outpatient…